Effects of fire and spruce beetle outbreak legacies on the disturbance regime of a subalpine forest in Colorado

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1445-1456

  Kulakowski, Dominik ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Bebi, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colorado; Dendrochronology; Dendroctonus; Disturbance; Fire; Interactions; Legacies; Subalpine forest

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DISTURBANCE; FIRE HISTORY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PEST OUTBREAK; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; INSECTA; PICEA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 0141426657     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2003.00912.x     Document Type: Article

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